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BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 Item Applicant Parish Reference No. No. 1 Mr J Ball SWAFFHAM 3PL/2009/0331/F 2 Lynford Hall Hotel LYNFORD 3PL/2009/0355/F 3 Norfolk Farm Produce Ltd BEESTON 3PL/2009/0371/F 4 Gorgate Ltd GRESSENHALL 3PL/2009/0384/O 5 City & West End Property Inves DEREHAM 3PL/2009/0385/O 6 Roger Warnes Transport Ltd GREAT DUNHAM 3PL/2009/0418/F 7 Mr A Worby GARVESTONE 3PL/2009/0443/F 8 Rowling Building Services Ltd STOW BEDON/BRECKLES 3PL/2009/0445/F 9 Mr D Taylor HARLING 3PL/2009/0499/F DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 ITEM 1 RECOMMENDATION : APPROVAL REF NO: 3PL/2009/0331/F Full LOCATION: SWAFFHAM APPN TYPE: Stanfield House POLICY: Out Settlemnt Bndry Lynn Road ALLOCATION: No Allocation CONS AREA: N APPLICANT: Mr J Ball c/o agent TPO: N LB GRADE: N AGENT: Pelorus Planning & Property Lt 1 Collins Way Rash's Green PROPOSAL: Retirement village comprising care home, cottages, access & parking CONSULTATIONS SWAFFHAM TOWN COUNCIL No objection RECOMMENDATION Planning Permission CONDITIONS 3920 SEE REPORT ITEM DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 ITEM 2 RECOMMENDATION : APPROVAL REF NO: 3PL/2009/0355/F Full LOCATION: LYNFORD APPN TYPE: Lynford Hall Mobile Home Park POLICY: Out Settlemnt Bndry Lynford Hall ALLOCATION: No Allocation CONS AREA: N APPLICANT: Lynford Hall Hotel Lynford Mundford TPO: N LB GRADE: Within Curtilage G2 AGENT: Regus Consulting Ltd Amp House Prayors Farm PROPOSAL: Continued use of site for 46 park homes KEY ISSUES Justification for further renewal of temporary permission DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENT The application seeks temporary planning permission for the continued use of the site for 46 park homes SITE AND LOCATION Lynford Hall is outside the Settlement Boundary of Lynford and approximately one mile from the village of Mundford. Lynford Hall is a Grade II Listed building and its grounds have been designated as historic parkland. The hall is currently run as a hotel and conference centre. DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 RELEVANT SITE HISTORY 3PL/2006/1593/F - Renewal for 2 years of planning permission 3PL/2004/2057/F for 46 park homes - Temporary to 30/4/09 3PL/2004/0633/F - Renewal of existing planning permission for further 10 years for occupied units - Temporary to 20/2/05 3PL/2004/1676/LB - Residential development of 46 apartments - Not yet determined 3PL/2004/1675/O - Residential development of 46 apartments - Not yet determined 3PL/2004/1674/CU - Use of land for stationing mobile homes (25) - Not yet determined 3PL/2004/1673/F - Permanent use of land for the stationing of 46 park homes - Not yet determined 3PL/2003/1958/F - Renewal of permission for 46 no park homes - Temporary to 20/02/05 99/0853 - Move 10 mobile homes to new area - Rec for approval - subject to S106 which was never signed. No decision issued 3/93/1177 - Renewal of permission for 46 no park homes for ten years - Temporary to 31/1/04 3/89/0161 - Extension to residential caravan park for six caravans - Refused - allowed on appeal - Temporary to 31/12/93 3/88/1794 - Extension to residential caravan park for six caravans - Refused 3/84/0153 - Retention of existing park - Temporary to 31/12/93 3/83/1499 - Retention of existing mobile home park - Temporary to 31/12/88 (plan shows 40 vans) renewal of S.3579, 74/1838 and 75/1523 POLICY CONSIDERATIONS The following National Planning Guidance and/or Saved Policies of the Breckland Local Plan and/or Core Strategy and Development Control Policies Proposed Submission Document have been taken into consideration in the determination of this application: PPS1: Sustainable development PPS3: Housing PPG13: Transport HOU.6: Development outside Settlement Boundaries TRA.5: Highway safety CONSULTATIONS LYNFORD P C NO REPLY AS AT 26TH JUNE, 2009 HIGHWAYS AUTHORITY - Objection on the grounds that the proposal would conflict with the aims of sustainable development, the need to minimise travel and the ability to reduce the reliance on the car. Recommend reduction in number of homes to just those currently occupied (15) with a condition requiring further phased removal. COUNCIL'S TREE AND COUNTRYSIDE OFFICER - reiterated comments made in 2005 and DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 considers that a management plan with full ecological, arboricultural and landscape considerations be brought forward at the earliest opportunity. In relation to impact on special interest of SPA concludes the proposal would not increase any existing adverse effects on the special features of the SPA. COUNCIL'S HISTORIC BUILDINGS OFFICER - No comment COUNCIL'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER - No objections GARDEN HISTORY SOCIETY - To be reported verbally at meeting NATURAL ENGLAND - No comments NORFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST - To be reported verbally at meeting REPRESENTATIONS None ASSESSMENT NOTES * The proposal is referred to Development Control Committee as it is a major application. * Temporary planning permission was first granted for the use of the land adjacent to Lynford Hall in 1961 and the use has continued since then on the basis of a series of further temporary permissions. * On 24th April 2007 permission for 46 park homes was renewed until 30th April 2009. * Although in the past up to 46 mobile homes have been stationed on the site, their number has been reduced in recent years. * At the time of the last temporary permission, the justification for the application was to enable the then owner to retain the income from the facility over the short term to allow the longer term plans in respect of the hotel as a whole to be progressed * Whilst limited information has been submitted with the application, it is understood that a further change of ownership has occurred and similar reasons exist for pursuing a further temporary permission * A letter from the applicant's agent states that it is anticipated that an alternative application for the park home site and other areas of the adjacent Lynford Hall site would be submitted in June 2009 for a leisure orientated development. No proposals have been received to date * Notwithstanding this, given the history of the site, it is considered that it would not be unreasonable to grant a further two years to allow the applicant time to clarify future intentions for the site. RECOMMENDATION Planning Permission CONDITIONS DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 3032 Temporary use - 2 year 3998 NOTE: Reasons for Approval 4000 Variation of approved plans DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 ITEM 3 RECOMMENDATION : APPROVAL REF NO: 3PL/2009/0371/F Full LOCATION: BEESTON APPN TYPE: Norfolk Farm Produce Ltd POLICY: Out Settlemnt Bndry Herne Lane ALLOCATION: No Allocation CONS AREA: N APPLICANT: Norfolk Farm Produce Ltd Herne Lane Beeston TPO: N LB GRADE: N AGENT: LPB Design 32 Blackthorn Road Attleborough PROPOSAL: Construction of new agricultural storage building & associated external hardstanding KEY ISSUES 1. Principle 2. Visual impact 3. Amenity 4. Highway safety DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENT This application seeks full planning permission to construct a new agricultural storage building for the ambient and cold storage of farm produce on a parcel of arable land to the east of Herne Lane. The building would comprise of a steel frame with metal cladding and measure approximately 110 metres by 49 metres with a height to the ridgeline of 13 metres. SITE AND LOCATION The application site forms part of the Norfolk Farm Produce site operated to the east and the west of Herne Lane. An existing access off Herne Lane would be utilised to serve the proposal. RELEVANT SITE HISTORY The site has been subject to a number of planning permissions. However, the most relevant of these permissions relating to the eastern side of the site include permission for a recently constructed storage and grading building (Ref: 3PL/2005/0976/F and 3PL/2007/0108/F). DC131 BRECKLAND COUNCIL - DEVELOPMENT CONTROL COMMITTEE - 13-07-2009 POLICY CONSIDERATIONS The following National Planning Guidance and/or Saved Policies of the Breckland Local Plan and/or Core Strategy and Development Control Policies Proposed Submission Document have been taken into consideration in the determination of this application: PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas ECO5: Development of Employment Uses outside Settlement Boundaries TRA5: Traffic Generation CONSULTATIONS BEESTON P C At the recent Parish Council meeting the members raised NO OBJECTION to the above application. However several comments need to be raised regarding the application. Firstly the Parish Council is concerned at the arrangements for surface water as a large part of agricultural land is being claimed for this building so that there is less ground for the water to percolate through and the current drainage system can hardly cope with the surface water at present. It is requested that this be considered very carefully prior to permission being granted. The Parish Council requests that the following conditions be placed on any permission being given and to be implemented in full prior to the development being brought into use: 1. An agreement to achieve improvements in the load-bearing capacity and surface water drainage on the road into Beeston from the A47. 2. The Highways department to obtain a contribution from the developer to design and implement a scheme of traffic management to achieve one-way working westbound for lorries on Herne Lane and eastbound on Dairy Drift. 3. The proposed landscape proposals to be more significant and for the existing gap in the hedge on dairy drift to be closed by a hedge to the rear of the existing. 4. Hours of operation to be reduced specifically to prevent overnight working and daytime working over the weekend and on bank holidays.